Apparatus for cleansing and removing sediment from milk.



W. P. HARPER.

APF/wcm-s .FOR CLEANsmG ANU REMOVING SEDIMENT FROM MILK.

APPLICATION HLED MAY l2, 1917.

Parened Auw. 2l, 1917.

WILLAM P. HARPER, `Oll .ABILENE KANSAS.

APPARATUS non ctnaivsrn'e Anp nnrrovme snpininnr Faoin man.

insacia- To all whom t may concern.'

' tervals from each Be it kknown that Abilene, in the county of Dickinson and State ofy Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleansing and Removing Sediment Milk; and l to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others, skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the'same, reference being vhad tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters and gures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in devices for cleansing andl removing sediment from milk, etc., and consists in the provision of various details of construction, vcombinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described; shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

.My invention is illustrated in the accomdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. A is a detail in elevation of the outer sheath or shell removed.

Reference now beingI had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a hopper-shaped member having a cylindrical portion B with openings C arranged at inother therein, and each covered by a screen D. F designates a screen formed in the hopper intermediate the Aflaring and cylindrical portions thereof. The bottom is designated by letter H and is Banged and telescopes within the bottom. A lter disk, designated by letter K, is

Vmounted within the cylindrical receptacle and provided with perforations and lugs upon its under surface which support the same above thebottom upon which it rests.

Mounted to have an oscillating movement about the cylindrical portion of theV device is a collar N which is cylindrical-shaped and provided with openingsJ, which are of a size equal to the area of the screen-covered openings in said cylindrical portion and form means for opening and closing the screened openings.` The upper end of said collar is provided with a beading J and L LWILLIAM P. HARPER, a citizen of the United States, residingv at from. do hereby declare the following cylindrical portion covered openings ySpecifcationtzet Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 2li., 191W., ippucanon mea my ra, ieu. serial no. 165,229.

'LugsR project from` the flaring portion of thevhopper' member at points diametrically opposite and are adapted to rest in the angled slots T- formed in the cylindrical Sheath or shell S .which supports the hopper member, said lugs being adapted to engage in the slots to hold the same in place. aid handle projects through one of the slots, which is elongated, and provides means whereby the collar may be turned upon the same is mounted in In operation, the device is adapted to be placed in a pan or receptacle and milk poured into the hopper will pass through the screen F and into the cylindrical receptacle beneath. When the milk is poured into the device the rcollar is so positioned with reference to the screen covered openings, that the latter will be closed, permitting the milk to-stand in the c` lindricalportion where it of the hopper while the the outer shell or sheath.

will remain still, and any sediment orv formed matter, 4which may be contained in the milk, will settle in the space beneath the screened openings and the heavier particles passing beneath the ltervdisk K.' After the milk has stood a required length of time for the purposel of settling thereof, the collar may be operated to bring the openings i-n the collar into registration 4with the screen covered openings in the cylindrical part of` the device, thus allowing they milk to make exit into the spaces between the cylindrical portion B and the shell S and into the pan or other receptacle in which the device may be placed. After the milk has Vbeen racked oft, it will be noted, that as the milk iows through the screened openings it will not disturb any sedi ent 'which may gravitate to the bottom o the `Vcylindrical partB. When the milk h'as been poured oii` the device may be taken out of the pan and the sediment removed.

What I claim to be new is:

An apparatus for cleansing and removing sediment from milk, etc., comprising a hopper with a cylindrical shaped portion having a closed bottom and provided with screen having their lower ends spaced from the bottom of said cylindrical portion, an oscillating shell with a beading at the upper en thereof movable about the cylindrical portion' of the hopper, and provided with openings designed to register with said screen cov ered openings, a perforated lter disk provided 'with feet yto support the same above the bottomr of the hopper, a handle projecting' fom said beading, an open ended shellI upon the top of which thenelned portion of the hopper is adapted to rest supporting 'the lowerend of the cylindrical part -thereof above Vthe bottom of said shell, 'the letter,

lbeine provided with a slot in the upper edge thereofin which the outWeI-'dly inclined porn l0 'tion of said handle is adapted-whew a lim- 

